The change in Botanical Heights started with a single restaurant. Before Olio, an Italian spot fashioned from a boarded-up old gas station, opened in 2012, its St. Louis neighborhood was known mostly as a place to buy illegal drugs. Nearly three-quarters of the lots on some streets were abandoned or demolished, said Brent Crittenden, the…
The key to a rich, nuanced tomato sauce is time. That’s the one thing most of us don’t have a lot of during the week, but making a large batch of tomato sauce on the weekend, then freezing it in small portions can set you up for success. With this easy five-ingredient tomato sauce in…
There’s a raging debate in our house about whether congee — also called jook — is a breakfast porridge or a dinner-worthy soup. The answer, of course, is both. At its most basic, congee is made from nothing more than rice and water, simmered long and slow until the grains burst and release their starch,…
Good morning. Pete Wells has a terrific story in The Times today about a surprising development in the quarantine many of us are living under still: Americans are cooking a lot of fish. With no restaurants to visit for shrimp scampi (above), broiled salmon, fried squid or sole meunière, we’re turning to the homemade variety…
I’ve sabered open a bottle of Champagne. But disgorging one? Yes, try this at home. Just follow the step-by-step that comes with Família Geisse’s Cave Amadeu Rústico Nature from southern Brazil. In sparkling wine parlance, disgorging refers to extracting the sediment, or lees, that accumulate as the wine develops. Traditionally it’s done by gradually turning…
Hundreds of Wendy’s restaurants have run out of hamburgers. Kroger, the largest supermarket chain in the United States, is limiting the amount of ground beef and pork that customers can buy at some stores. And Costco, where shoppers typically buy in bulk, has placed a three-product cap on purchases of fresh beef, poultry and pork.…
Everything from pizza to a long-simmered stracotto can satisfy the appetite for Italian specialties, and can be delivered from restaurants. I’m not sure I’d order a portion of spaghetti marinara to take away, since assembling it is no challenge, but there are other favorites that are more daunting. When was the last time you bought…
In 1963, on their way home from the hospital after he was born, Louis Rozzo’s parents stopped by a building on Ninth Avenue in Chelsea, where the family ran a wholesale seafood business, to weigh him in a scallop scale. This March, when virtually every restaurant, club and hotel that bought seafood from him closed…
Chefs are fund-raising through recipes to help restaurants stay afloat during the crisis. A digital cookbook, “Serving New York: For All the People Who Make NYC Dining Unforgettable,” with recipes from dozens of restaurants, will support ROAR and the Robin Hood Foundation to help restaurant workers. It was assembled and written by Kristin Tice Studeman,…
For springtime and beyond, Hay, a Danish tableware and home furnishing company, has just introduced a line of tailored cotton place mats and napkins in pastel yellow, lavender, beige and gray, each trimmed with contrasting borders. The beige, for example, has sky blue trim. They come in sets of four. Hay Contour place mats, $20…